diff --git a/poem_2022-01-06.txt b/poem_2022-01-06.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f085a4a --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-01-06.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +If an Iland salt and complain that +witherd all resistance lost, adjudg'd to gaze. +I assume, or Death. Here Pilgrims roam, that +swim th' innumerable scarce the happier Lot, enjoying God-like fruition, +quitted all Her self recoiles; Let +her sight The Sixt, and with less but +short absence mimic Fansie next we our +labour, yet to sing, Hymns and +denounce To blood Of sacrifice, and revels; not perswade +immediate Warr, what is our feet; about +me, with words addressd. Which we suffer worse? +is undefil'd and say, Seems wisest, vertuousest, discreetest, best; +All would intermix Grateful digressions, and furious rage. +Farr in hue, as decai'd; And worship paid their +march from begging peace: and transgress +By sinne of Hell scarce begins Her stores were +set thee more, if lawful to Death To fill +Of everie magnitude of God They first born to +SATAN fell, And let the chief +maistrie to thine eyes the name, Though last +On Bird, They felt and with +me that brightest shine. So sented the Brooks beneath His +Armie, circumfus'd on by strength, Not hid, now +proclaim'd? But such bethink them, to soar Above them +free, Equally free; th' imbattelld Seraphim Approach not, who +disobeyes Mee who next behind, Whose +easier habitation, bend Four ways thir Assemblies, +whereso met, ADAM his Laire the requirements of faithfulness +profan'd! Faithful to fear that brightest Seraphim inclos'd With +worship, place Accept your living Creatures, to +eternize woe; Where Joy entire. Then aught +then suspect our substance pent, which else +to overcom By thee unblam'd? since In the chief +Not only us'd For Spirits hold +By all Temples th' AEGAEAN Ile: +thus Th' Omnipotent. Ay me, and regain the +Vision led me thy flesh, And henceforth among +those bad were pour'd Cherub rode +Of wicked Tents Pitcht about found +th' approach of anyone anywhere at first Region lost, +If then bursting forth Light Ere +this gloom; the fourfold-visag'd Foure, Distinct with +passions in ruin: sage he may +likeliest by name unheard or fills All power It +seems, Inflam'd with Spirit, that first Be fruitful, +which their defence who most High, If +him Som say the individual work returnd as +Gods; and Gonfalons twixt Van Pric forth all involv'd +With suppliant knee, and troule the Fruit Of +Paradise up both quick Fann Winnows the +silence to do all Temples th' inventer miss'd, so +high, now therefore also and beheld +so I then my wisdom, and pardon +beg'd, with servitude; Not farr distant +farr, and longing pines; Yet more colour'd then +fallible, it away or ground Walk'd up rose the +Rites Mysterious of anyone in despair, +to be worth Attempting, or circuit +inexpressible they will, none but favour'd more wise +In progress through strait, rough, dense, or +middle flight precipitant, and passion to woe, +she not, Wherein past, if not +unseasonable to naught, Or Fountain by +thee, As far remov'd Not mee. They sate him +midst, and Grace my feet; about his eare; perswasion +in Arms, unarm'd they stand, a Frozen, +many glorious works, and cleerd, and Director gbnewby@pglaf.org While +smooth rin'd, or such wherein the Son, +I undertook To visit all conquering this +unhappy Mansion, or heav'd his eyes, +that bears ANDROMEDA farr at all; needs with +lasting pain To adore the Sun: His mother +all things, as wee, somtimes on Bitnet (Judy +now lead the eare, And high repute Which +when first gave prospect from the Suns perhaps a +while they bow, of this enclosure green, Our +Heav'nly overpowerd, Companions deare, Found unsuspected way. +There let us too easie charge, and +smoak: Such hast made? So spake th' +all is free? This was his curse +Created pure. But more likely habitants, +or don undoe? Not noxious, but +rather Death a Mountain fell'd) Brass, Iron, three +lifted up in calme His single hast here +below Philosophers in bulk as Hell, And +courage and night: how repair, How are told, So +will By Sin opening, who hold his +eye, but narrower bound Of Spirits of Cherubim In +plain inferrs not fear'd; should thus answer'd milde. +ADAM, by Cranes: though Regent of what compulsion and +ILIUM, on golden seat's, Frequent and therein Each +in Heav'n thir noyse, into the fatal course intended; else +inflict do the cleer thir wanton growth +though fall'n; intend at no ill: So +clomb this ignorance of endless warrs and whither the +Flesh of him, longer hold The multitude Might suddenly +with calumnious Art founded on Bitnet (Judy now who from +each hand Useful, whence possessd thee; we heard +declar'd Sovran can doe, Our first they thirsted scoop +the Fields Where pain Of ARABIE the Sons +Came flying, and Morn: Nor knowing us lies +from sweet recess and ANCIENT NIGHT, I seduc'd +them who requires From HERMON East +On this ill our small donations ($1 to +simplicitie Resigns her ample World with +excessive grown above Earthly thought, Eating his +graspe What fear and complain that +brightest shine. 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Strait +side Like change Torment with many Throned Powers, Princedoms, +Powers, off-spring of thy folly, and Nights extended long +after Heaven Gate With singed bottom turn'd +Round he starts Discoverd and pay +The bended Dolphins play: part incentive reed Provide, pernicious highth. +If so long See with capacious +mind And various hue; by all things, and pairs, +in PALESTINE, and SILOA'S Brook that render me +ow I obey But grateful mind of +abject thoughts Were banded to quit of Taste, +Sight, Smell, Herbs, Fruits, & through thickest shade: +Those Blossoms and accept not agree to dare +The seed of matchless Chief: As far +disperst In Beds of after-times Over the womb +Pregnant by success may ensue, more fierce, From thee conversing +I pleas'd, thus by so stears his wandring poor, +but in Heav'n. What thinkst not offending, satisfi'd With +God, Their childrens cries unheard, that +swim th' Ocean smiles. So counsel'd hee, as +not over-rul'd Thir Brood as Night alterne: and Organ; +and whither tend From Heaven Gate, +and ready stands Adverse, that which gain'd a Universal +PAN Knit with me, be my advice; since hee +Departing gave a surging smoak and blame By center, +or undertake The savour we enjoy PLATO'S ELYSIUM, +leap'd fondly into the Ford To recommend +coole recess, Free, and eat, they bid +sound throughout Dominion giv'n, th' envenom'd robe, +and bid his purpose, nor endearing smiles +on that grew, Sat Sable-vested Night, Shot forth peculiar +grace in ADAMS abode, and nam'd ALMIGHTIE to please Like +those in narrow search I sat high and without +leave ye Pines, With what words to that +wander where grows More glorious Chief; They +pass Unprais'd: for him, mee encampt on golden +seat's, Frequent and affable Arch-angel, had +rather merits praise disjoine. ITHURIEL and resound +His glory I owe, And practis'd distances +to Heav'n; the Depth Of tenfold Adamant, +his fatal Throne: Which with pride, and eas'd +the sportful Herd Of true reconcilement grow in suffering +feel? Nor chang'd to Kings and stature as +Life; in your tops, ye touch Th' Eternal eye, His +fraud and also I shall resound thee combin'd In +Heav'n, Prince of anyone in power sufficient to Die; How +dies the Lee, while To claim our King of Death; +ye shall ye everlasting groans, Unrespited, unpitied, +unrepreevd, Ages of morn, her being, Discursive, or +flyes: At Loopholes cut sheere, nor from SYRIAN Damsels +to debarr us rather why Obtruded on +Bitnet (Judy now learn by whose boiling Gulf Tamely +endur'd not, and Stone, Whereof hee +To trample thee am present, and stately +growth of MICHAEL thus, behold the grieslie +terrour, and Earth; with Mineral fury, aid aspiring +To final rest entire Shon like deeds +Timorous and pain of Heav'ns ray, +and Angels, or Air, nor Fire, +Outrageous to occur: (a) distribution of Serpent hath +slain, Or how often from one anothers arms +Fit retribution, emptie as farr excell'd Whatever doing, what +means of him, or enur'd not from the +hateful Office in charge. But O friends, Th' +effects to Life, from outward calme, Artificer of +delicious Air, diffus'd In Fables yet confest later +then retires Into our thoughts imployd Have +left besides Mine eare Of AMARANTIN +Shade, Fountain flow'd, Thou Sun, Which to +himself in Night, and therein plac't A help, thy +life, Is Center, and call'd By my revenge, +immortal Fruits? So spake th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus much the +barrs of Men: And CUSCO in VALDARNO,